Mozart's response to the idea of making church music was a little like the average child's reaction to being told to eat his spinach. And much fuss has been made over just how much Mozart hated having ...

How do you solve a problem like Bernadette, Regina and Rita? For several weeks now, three elderly nuns have been occupying ...

The plight of Pierre, &c. Up north and down here, &c. 9/11 as ‘inside job,’ &c. Editor’s Note: Jay Nordlinger spent the middle two weeks of August in Salzburg, Austria, working at the Salzburg ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Claude Vivier was barely older than Mozart when he was brutally murdered in his Paris apartment 28 years ago.

Pianist Katie Mahan with early music specialist Reinhard Goebel. The roots of the Mozarteum University date back to 1841 and the founding of the "Dommusikverein und Mozarteum" on the 50th anniversary ...

Members of an Allentown church choir returned to the Lehigh Valley recently after a two-week tour of Austria and Germany and a performance at the Salzburg Church Music Festival. About three dozen ...

The fascination with Salzburg’s music backbone is never ending, from the genius beginnings of Mozart to 200 years later with “The Sound of Music” film. The musical-turned-film is one of Hollywood’s ...

A Salzburg resident sued the archdiocese because the ringing of the nearby Herrnau parish church was too loud. In the civil proceedings, both sides agreed to make adjustments: Every half hour, for ...